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Whit-Mon., July 20, Sept. 9, Oct. 28, | KILKHAMPTON, 3 miles N. from StratDec. 30, for cattle. This is a corporate town, having a mayor, four aldermen, and 31 freemen, including the mayor and aldermen. It sends two members to parliament. The right of election is in the corporation. The number of voters, 31. Here was an Hospital, founded by a Mr. Kyllegrew, at an early period; yearly value 141. 7s. 4d., now worth 2871. 6s. 8d.

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ILLOGAN, 3 miles N.W. from Redruth. Popula. 5,170.

ISSEY (St.), 3 miles S.E. from Padstow. Popula. 660.

IVES (St.), 277 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 3,526. Market, Wed. and Fri.; fairs, Sat. before Advent, for cattle. This is a corporate town, having a mayor, recorder, 12 capital burgesses, 24 inferior burgesses, and a town-clerk. It sends 2 members to parliament. The right of election is in the inhabitants of the borough paying scot and lot. The number of voters, 133.

LADOCK, 2 miles N.W. from Grampound.
Popula. 806,
LANLIVERY, mile S.W. from Lost-
withiel. Popula. 1,318.
LAMORRAN, 4 miles S.E. from Truro.
Popula. 93.

LANDEWEDNACK, 7 miles S. from
Helston. Popula. 387.

LANDULPH, 3 miles N.E. from Saltash. Popula. 579.

LANHYDROCK, 3 miles N. from Lostwithiel. Popula. 251.

LANDRAKE, with St. Erney, 3 miles N.W. from Saltash. Popula. 841. Fairs, July 19, August 24, for cattle. LANEAST, 4 miles S.W. from Launceston. Popula. 229.

LANIVET, 3 miles S. from Bodmin. Popula. 803.

LANREATH, 5 miles N.E. from Fowey. Popula. 629. Fairs, Nov. 18, WhitTuesday.

Popula. 880.

IVE (St.), 4 miles S.W. from Callington. LANSALLOES, 3 miles N.E. from Fowey.
Popula. 601.
JACOBSTOW, 7 miles S. from Stratton. LANTEGLOS, with Camelford. 228 miles
Popula. 571.
S.W. from London. Popula. 1,256.

JOHN (St.), 2 miles S. from Saltash. Po- LANTEGLOS, 1 mile N.E. from Fowey. pula. 178.

JULIOT (St.), 3 miles N. from Camelford, Popula. 263. Here there was a Cluniac Cell, founded as early as the time of Rich. I.; granted, 37 Hen. VIII., to Laurence Courtney.

JUST (St.), 6 miles W. from Penzance. Popula. 3,666.

JUST (St.), with St. Mawes, 4 miles N.E. from Falmouth. Popula. 1,648.

KEA, 2 miles S.E. from Truro. Popula. 3,208.

KENWYN, 1 mile N. from Truro. Popula. 6,221.

KEN (St.), 7 miles N.W. from Bodmin. Popula. 1,218.

KEVERNE (St.), 6 miles S.E. from Helston. Popula. 2,505. Here there was a Cistercian Cell, founded about the Conquest, under the tutelage of St. Achebran; granted, 2 Eliz., to Francis Earl of Bedford.

KEYNE (St.), 1 mile S. from Liskeard. Popula. 153.

Popula. 973.

LAUNCELLS, mile S. from Stratton. Popula. 891.

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LAUNCESTON, 213 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 2,183. This is a corporate town, having a mayor, recorder, 8 aldermen, and an indefinite number of freemen: sends 2 members to parliament. The right of election is in the mayor, alderman, and freemen, being inhabitants at the time they were made free, and not receiving pay of the parish. The number of voters, 15. Market, Sat.; fairs, first Thurs. in March, a free-market, third Thurs. in April ditto, Whit-Mon., July 6, Nov. 17, Dec. 6, for cattle. Here was à College of Augustine Canons, founded before the Conquest, about mile from this town; yearly revenue 3921. 11s. 2d., now worth 7,8511. 3s. 4d.; granted, 26 Hen. VIII.

LAWHITTON, 2 miles S.E. from Launceston. Popula. 435. LELANT, 3 miles S.E. from St. Ives. Popula. 1,271. Fair, Aug. 1, cattle.

LESNEWTH, 3 miles N. from Camelford. | MABYN (St.), 4 miles N. from Bodmin.

Popula. 123.

LEVAN (St.), 3 miles S.E. from Land's

End. Popula. 490,

LEWANNICK, 5 miles S.W. from Laun

ceston. Popula. 635.

LEZANT, 5 miles S. from Launceston. Popula. 853.

LINKINHORNE, 3 miles N. from Callington. Popula. 1,080.

LISKEARD, 223 miles S.W, from London. Popula. 3,519. Market, Sat.; fairs, Shrove-Mon., Mon. before Palm-Sun., Holy-Thurs., Aug. 15, Oct. 2, Mon. after Dec. 6, for horses, oxen, sheep, and cloth. This is a corporate town, having a mayor, recorder, 8 capital burgesses, and 15 assistants. It sends 2 members to parliament. The right of election is in the mayor and burgesses. The number of voters, 24.

LOOE (East), St. Martin's parish, and po

pula, included therein. 2334 miles from London. Market, Sat.; fairs, Feb. 13, July 10, Sept. 4, Oct. 10, cattle, &c. This is a corporate town, having a mayor, recorder, 8 aldermen, and an indefinite number of burgesses. It sends 2 members to parliament. The right of election is in the corporation. The number of electors, 21.

LOOE (West), in Talland parish, and popula. included therein.mile W. from East Looe. This is a township, with a corporation, consisting of 12 burgesses. It sends 2 members to parliament. The right of election is in the corporation. The number of voters, 12. Market, Sat.; fairs, May 6, for cattle, &c.

LOSTWITHIEL, 234 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 933. A corporate town, having a mayor, 6 capital burgesses, and 17 common councilmen. It sends 2 members to parliament. The right of election is in the corporation. The number of voters, 24: capable of exerting that right, only 9. Market, Fri.; fairs, July 10, Sept. 6, Nov. 13,

for cattle, &c.

Popula. 715. Fair, Feb, 13. MADRON, 1 mile N.W. from Penzance. Popula. 7,235.

MANACCAN, 3 miles E. from Helston. Popula. 591,

MARAZION, or MARKET-JEW, in St.

Hilary parish, and popula. included therein, 3 miles E. from Penzance. Market, Thurs.; fairs, Thurs., three weeks before Easter, Sept. 29, cattle. MARHAM-CHURCH, 1 mile S. from Stratton. Popula. 647. Fairs, Mar. 25, Aug. 12.

MARTIN (St.), 5 miles S.E. from Helston. Popula. 504. Fair, Feb, 13. MARTIN'S (St.), 1 mile N, from East Looe. Popula. 1,181.

MAWES (St.), in St. Just parish, and popula, included therein. 24 miles N.E. from Falmouth, and 258 S.S.W. from London. Market, Fri.; fair, Fri. after St. Luke's day. This is not a corporate town, but it sends 2 members to parliament. The right of election is in the portreve, and in the burgesses resident in the place. The present num. ber of voters, 22.

MAWGAN, 2 miles S,E. from Helston. Popula. 1,050.

MAWGAN, 2 miles N.W. from St. Columb

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MEVAGISSEY, 5 miles E. from Tregony. Popula. 2,450.

MEWAN (St.), 2 miles S.W. from St. Austel. Popula. 1,174,

LUXULION, 3 miles S.W. from Lostwi- MICHAEL (St.), in the parishes of New

thiel. Popula. 1,276.

LUDGVAN, 3 miles N. from Penzance.

Popula. 1,839.

MABE, 1 mile S. from Penryn. Popula. 457.

lin and St. Enoder, and popula. included with them. 250 miles from London. Fair, Oct. 15. This is not a corporate town, but it sends 2 members to parlia ment. The right of election is in the portreves, and in the lords of the manor,

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MICHAEL (St. Penkevill), 3 miles S.E.

from Truro. Popula. 167. MICHAEL (St. Carhaise), 2 miles S.E.

from Tregony. Popula. 174. MICHAEL (St. Mount), 1 mile S. from Merazion, Popula. 223. Here was a Priory of Alien Monks, founded in the year 1085, by Edward the Confessor; yearly value, 110l. 12s. Oдd., now worth 2,219l. 10d.

MICHAELSTON, 3 miles S.W. from Ca-
melford. Popula. 216.

MINSTER, 2 miles N. from Camelford.
Popula. 425.

MINVER (St. Highlands and Lowlands),
4 miles N.E. from Padstow. Popula,
1,028.
MOORWINSTOW, 6 miles N.W. from
Stratton. Popula. 1,091,

MORVAH, 4 miles N.W. from Penzance.
Popula, 325,

MORVAL, 2 miles N. from East Looe.
Popula. 615.

MULLION, 3 miles S. from Helston. Po-
pula, 692.

MYLOR, 14 mile E. from Penryn. Po-
pula, 2,198.

NEOT (St.), 4 miles N.W. from Liskeard.
Popula. 1,255. Fairs, May 5, Easter-
Mon., Nov. 5.

NEWLYN, 7 miles S.W. from St. Columb

Major. Popula, 1,045. Fair, Nov. 8. NEWPORT, in St. Stephen's parish, and popula. included therein, 3 miles from Launceston. Not a corporate town: right of election in the inhabitants paying scot and lot; number of voters, nominally, 62, but actually only 1; sends 2 members to parliament. NORTH-HILL, 6 miles S.W. from Launceston. Popula. 1,089. Fairs, Sept. 8, first Thurs. in Nov.

OTTERHAM, 3 miles N.E, from Camelford. Popula. 212.

PAUL, 3 miles S. from Penzance, Po-
pula. 3,790.

PADSTOW, 243 miles S.W. from London.
Popula. 1,700. Market, Sat.; fairs,
April 18, Sept. 21, cattle, &c.

PENROSE, a small hamlet, near the
Land's-End, Cornwall.

PENRYN, in St. Gluvias parish, and po-
pula. included therein, 3 miles N.W.
from Falmouth, and 2664 miles W.S.W.
from London. Market, Wed., Fri., Sat.;
fairs, May 12, July 7, Dec. 21, for
cattle, &c. This is a corporate town,
having a mayor, 11 aldermen, and 12
burgesses, with power to choose a re-
corder, steward, town-clerk, 2 constables,
and 2 mace-bearers. It sends 2 members
to parliament: the right of election is in
the inhabitants who pay scot and lot:
the number of voters, 140. Here there
was a College, built by the good Bishop
of Exeter, Walter Bronescomb, in the
year 1270; valued at 205!. 10s. 6d., now
worth 4,110/. 10s.

PENZANCE, in Madron parish, and po-
pula. (5,224) included therein. 3 miles
from Merazion, and 280 W.S.W. from
London. Fairs, Thurs. before Advent,
Thurs. aft. Trinity-Sun., Corpus-Christ.,
eattle, &c.
PERRAN-ARWORTHAL, 3 miles N.
from Penryn. Popula. 1,362.
PERRAN-UTHONE, 1 mile S. from Me-
razion. Popula. 786.

PERRANZABULOE, 9 miles S.W. from
St. Columb-Major. Popula. 1,702. Fair,
. March 16.

PETHERICK (Little), 2 miles S. from
Padstow. Popula. 217.
PETHERWIN (South), 3 miles S.W. from
Launceston. Popula. 914.
PHILLACK, 7 miles S.W. from Redruth.
Popula. 2,529.
PHILLEIGH, or FILLEY, 4 miles 8.E.
from Truro. Popula. 395.
PILLATON, 3 miles S. from Callington.
Popula. 452. Fair, Whit-Tues.
PINNOCK (St.), 1 mile S.W. from Lis-
keard. Popula, 431,
POUGHILL, 1 mile N.W. from Stratton.
Popula. 378.
POUNDSTOCK, 4 miles S. from Stratton.
Popula. 744. Fair, Mon. before Ascen.
PROBUS, 1 mile S.W. from Grampound.
Popula. 1,353. Fairs, May 4, July 5,
Sept. 17, cattle, &c. Here was a Čol-
lege, founded before the Conquest;
yearly income, 221. 10s., now worth
4501.; granted 26 Hen. VIII.

PELYNT, 4 miles N.W. from East Looe. QUETHIOCK, 5 miles S.W. from Calling

Popula. 750.

ton. Popula. 684.

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RAME, 6 miles S. from Saltash. Popula. TAMERTON (North), 8 miles S. from Stratton. Popula. 479.

807.

ROACH, 6 miles W. from Lostwithiel. TEATH (St.), 34 miles S.W. from Camel-
Popula. 1,425.
ford. Popula. 990. Fair, first Tues. in
July.

REDRUTH, 263 miles S.W. from London.
Popula. 6,607. Market, Fri.; fairs,
Easter-Tues., May 2, July 9. Sept. 5,
Oct. 1, cattle, &c.

RUAN (Major), 5 miles S. from Helston.
Popula. 187.

RUAN (Minor), 6 miles S.E. from Hel-
ston. Popula. 293.
RUAN-LANYHORNE, 2 miles S. from
Tregony. Popula. 376.

SALTASH, in St. Stephen's parish, and
popula. included therein. 220 miles S.W.
from London. This is a corporate town,
sending 2 members to parliament; the
right of voting is in the mayor and free
burgesses; the number of voters, nomi-
nally, 38, actually but 1. Market, Sat.;
fairs, Feb. 2, July 25, cattle, &c., Tues.
before Lady-Day, before Midsummer,
Michaelmas, and Christmas.

SAMPSONS (St.), 3 miles N. from Fowey.
Popula. 248.

SANCREED, 3 miles S.W. from Penzance.
Popula. 1,001.

TEMPLE, 6 miles N.E. from Bodmin. Po-
pula. 27.
THOMAS (St.),

mile W. from Laun-
ceston. Popula. 608.
THOMAS STREET (Št.), in St. Thomas
parish, and popula. included therein.
TINTAGELL with Bossiney, 3 miles N.W.
from Camelford. Popula. 877.
TOWEDNACK, 3 miles S. from St. Ives.
Popula. 582.

TREGAVETHAN, in Kea parish, and
popula. included therein.
TREGONEY, 251 miles S.W. from Lon-
don. Popula. 1,035. This is a corpo-
rate town, having a mayor, seven ca-
pital burgesses, and a recorder. It
sends 2 members to parliament; the
right of election is in all the house-
holders who boil the pot, or who pro-
vide for themselves, whether they live
under the same roof or not. Market,
Sat.; fairs, Shrove-Tues., May 3, July
25, Sept. 1, Nov. 6, cattle, &c.

ceston. Popula. 125.

SENNEN, 1 mile E. from Land's-End. TREMAYNE, 6 miles N.W. from LaunPopula. 637. SHEVIOCK, 3 miles S.W. from Saltash. TRENEGLOSS, 1 mile S.W. from CamelPopula. 491. ford. Popula. 238. SITHNEY, 2 miles N.W. from Helston. TRESMEER, miles N.W. from LaunPopula. 2,238. ceston. Popula. 173. SOUTH-HILL, 4 miles N.W. from Cal- TREVALGA, 2 miles N. from Camelford. lington. Popula. 534. Popula. 133. Fair, Oct. 19.

STEPHENS (St.), 1 mile N. from Salt- TREWEN, 5 miles S.W. from Launceston. ash. Popula. 2,873. Popula. 206. Fairs, May 1, Oct. 10, for cattle.

ST. STEPHENS, 5 miles N.W. from St.
Austel. Popula. 2,479.

ST. STEPHENS with Newport, 2134 miles
S.W. from London. Popula. 977. Fairs,
May 12, July 31, Sept. 25, cattle.
STITHIANS, 3 miles N.W. from Penryn.
Popula. 1,688.

STOKE-CHINSLAND, 4 miles N. from
Callington. Popula. 1,524. Fair, May

29.

STRATTON, 221 miles W.N.W. from

London. Popula. 1,580. Market, Tues.;
fairs, May 19, Nov. 8, Dec. 11, for
cattle.

TALLAND, 1 mile S.W. from East-Looe.
Popula. 1,378.

TRURO (St. Mary), 257 miles S.W.

from London. Popula. 2,712. This is a corporate town, having a mayor, 4 'aldermen, 20 capital burgesses, and a recorder; it sends 2 members to parliament; the right of election is in the mayor and 24 of the freemen; the number of voters, 25. Market, Wed., Sat.; fairs, Wed. in Mid-Lent, Wed. in Whitsun-week, Nov. 19, Dec. 8, for cattle. Here was a Dominican Convent, founded by the Reskiner family, in the reign of Hen. III.; granted, 7 Edw. VI., to Edward Anglianby.

TUDY (St.), 5 miles N. from Bodmin. Popula. 606. Fairs, May 20, Sept. 14, for cattle.

TYWARDRETH, 4 miles N.E. from St. Austel. Popula. 1,238. Here there was an Alien Priory of Benedictine Monks, founded in the year 1169, by some noblemen; yearly value 151l. 16s. 1d., now worth 3,036l. 1s. 8d.; granted, 34 Hen. VIII., to Edward Earl of Hertford.

VEEP (St.), 3 miles N. from Fowey. Popula. 585. Fair, Wed. before June 24.

WEEK (St. Mary), 6 miles S. from Strat

ton. Popula. 782. Fairs, Sept. 19, Dec. 4, Wed. before Christmas-day, for cattle, &c. WENDRON, 1 mile N. from Helston. Popula. 6,864.

WENN (St.), 6 miles S.W. from Bodmin. Popula. 589.

WHITSTONE, 5 miles S. from Stratton. Popula. 466.

WINNON, 1 mile S.E. from Lostwithiel. Popula. 906.

VERYAN, 3 miles S. from Tregony. Popula. 1,421. WARBSTOW, 4 miles N.E. from Camel- WITHIEL, 9 miles S.W. from Bodmin. ford. Popula. 439.

Popula. 339.

WARLEGGON, 5 miles N.W. from Lis- ZENNOR, 5 miles S.W. from St. Ives. keard. Popula. 296.

Popula. 715.

CUMBERLAND.

CUMBERLAND is bounded on the North by Scotland and a part of Northumberland, on the East by Westmorland and Durham, on the South by Lancashire, and on the West by the Irish sea. It is 80 miles long, and about 40 broad. It is divided into Wards, of which there are 5; and it has one city, one borough, and 16 market towns;-namely, the city of Carlisle, the borough of Čockermouth, and the market towns of Brampton, Egremont, Ireby, Keswick, KirkOswald, Penrith, Ravenglass, Whitehaven, Wigton, Workington, Hesket, Aldstone-Moor, Longtown, and Maryport. Its principal RIVERS are the Eden and the Derwent. It sends two members to parliament for the county, two for the city of Carlisle, and two for the borough of Cockermouth. It is in the PROVINCE OF YORK, and in the DIOCESES OF CARLISLE, DURHAM, and CHESTER, and in the NORTHERN CIRCUIT. It contains 1,478 square miles, or 945,920 acres, and 104 parishes. It had 11 monastic institutions; 23 public charities; it has 2 parishes with no church; 1 parish containing less than 100 people; 41 parishes with no parsonage house; 26 pa. rishes in which the parsonage house is unfit to live in. The poor-rates of the county are 68,826l. 18s. 34d.; the number of paupers is 6,651; the rental is

705,445l. 18s. 8d.; the population in 1821 was 156,124; the number of houses is 27,246; the rates, compared with the rental, one-twelfth; the pau-, pers, compared with the number of houses, is one to every four houses; the poor-rates in 1776 were 7,4021.; the number of persons to a mile in this county is 105; the number of acres to a person, 6; the number of acres to a house, 34; the male population, 75,600; the number of families employed in agriculture, 11,297; the number of families employed in handicraft, 13,146; the number of other families, 7,361; the number of the agricultural male population, 26,750; the number of able labourers, 13,375, and the number of acres of land to each able labourer, 72. Cumberland is, on the south-west side, mountainous and wild, but having many beautiful vallies and fine lakes and rivers, and some extensive woodlands intermixed with the mountains. On the eastern side another range of mountains stretches along into Scotland, and a tract of fine level land reaches along in front of this, becoming of great width before it reaches Carlisle, and extending across to Wigton and thence towards Workington, including a very considerable part of the northern part of the county. There are

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